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Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 18 (2019)
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The Permanent Forum recommends that Member States formulate evidence- based policies, long-term strategies and regulatory frameworks, in cooperation with indigenous peoples, to ensure their support and the protection and revitalization of indigenous languages, including adequate, sustained support for bilingual, mother- tongue education. The Forum also recommends that States facilitate the mainstreaming of indigenous languages. Allowing indigenous peoples to gain access to health care and other public services in their own languages will help to ensure their overall well-being.
Area of Work: Indigenous Languages, Culture
Addressee: SPFII
Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 2 (2003)
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The Forum recommends that in staffing the secretariat of the Forum, due consideration be given to qualified indigenous youth applicants.
Area of Work: Indigenous Children and Youth
Addressee: Member States
Paragraph Number: 23
Session: 4 (2005)
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States should recognize the rights of indigenous peoples to food and nutritional security and the sustainable production and consumption of healthy and nutritious foods by using appropriate sustainable technology. There is a particular need to ensure that indigenous peoples who depend on marine and terrestrial resources be supported in protecting and ensuring their rights to and sustainable use of those resources.
Area of Work: Health
